A couple of new bills introduced in the Florida Statehouse would add some restrictions, or increased waiting periods to obtaining concealed carry permits. From the TC Post:

In the House, a North Miami lawmaker is proposing to increase the time people have to wait before getting concealed weapon licenses if they’ve pleaded guilty or no contest to felonies but had convictions “withheld.”

People given those court breaks would have to wait five, not three, years after serving probation to obtain licenses to carry guns. The bill also increases the wait time from three to five years after conviction for certain crimes involving drugs and alcohol, violence and drunken driving.

The legislation is the latest response to a 2007 series of articles by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, which revealed that more than 1,400 people had active gun licenses even though courts found them responsible for assaults, burglaries, sexual battery, drug possession, child molestation — even homicide.

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Meanwhile, in the Senate, members of the Criminal Justice Committee are working to improve how state officials learn when a person has been found mentally ill so that they can suspend or revoke a gun license.

Currently, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement collects the names and dates of births of people declared mentally ill by the courts. The information is used in screening people when they apply for carry permits.

On that last one, the problem is that there are no “re-checks” of mental illness records during the five years that the permit is good for so someone could obtain a permit and a year later be ordered to a mental hospital for a few months, then released.